A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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appositive phrase

Phrase
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A noun phrase that renames or explains another noun adjacent to it

Detailed Definition
Appositive phrases compress exposition into lyrical equivalence (“my guide, the moon”), deepening imagery through immediate identification; they create syntactic intimacy between concepts, allowing poets to layer meaning without subordination.
Example
Example in poetry:
My brother, a soldier of the northern snows, returned with eyes too old for his face; the moon, a silver coin dropped by a careless god, hung above the field; her voice, a thread of amber in the dark, wove through the chamber; the oak, ancient and gnarled as a king’s last breath, stood sentinel.
Additional Notes
Appositive phrases rename or clarify nouns immediately following them, adding depth without conjunctions: “My brother, a soldier of the northern snows, returned changed”; they compress exposition into lyrical detail; used by Frost, Dickinson, and Heaney to embed biography, history, or metaphor into single lines; avoid redundancy; ensure the appositive enhances, not repeats, the noun; ideal for character sketches or emotional revelation; related to attributive phrase and epithetic phrase; use to elevate mundane subjects with symbolic weight.
Also Known As
apposition Appositive line
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